[Slackbuilds-users] DosBox is releasing...

[Doogster]

OH MY GOD!
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:15 AM Arnaud <yth at ythogtha.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
>         yesterday something happened.
> DosBox released a new version.
> After more than 8 years on 0.74, we will be entering into the future with the
> next update on version 0.74-2 !
>
>         Seriouslier (Yeah, I know), it seems there's a 0.75 coming.
> And as they really don't want to break any working game, this 0.74-2 only
> changes a very few maintenance things over 0.74, for example no more need of a
> patch to compile on modern gcc.
>
>         So I think that as soon as 0.75 is delivered, I'll keep 0.74-2 on a new
> package named dosbox74, which might not change for the foreseeable future, and
> the dosbox package will follow the 0.75 release.
>         I will also keep dosbox-dev, because nothing indicates that they'll
> release 0.76 before 2026, eight years from now. If this happens not to be true,
> and they start to release more often, less frightened to break compatibility
> because 0.74 will still be there and working for all the games with which it is
> already working... well, we'll see then !
>
>         Happy Retro Gaming Folks !
>
> --
> Arnaud <yth at ythogtha.org>
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